...precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance upon Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to...of civil war. The government will not assail you. I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends, We must not be enemies. Though passion may have...

...forsaken this favored land are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...of civil war. The Government will not assail you. Vou can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven...

...inaugural address he told the states that had seceded, 'In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to...

...Works, 4: 271): "Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty." See also ibid., 5: 497-98, 7: 48, 169. President of the Confederacy, said of Lincoln that...

...precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue...

...way, all our present difficulty. In your hands, my disnalisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mint, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you, unless yaujint assail ft You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. Yen have...

...onus of dissolution upon the shoulders of he Confederacy. In his inauguration speech, Lincoln said, "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen,...not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war," and, "You can have no conflict without yourselves being the aggressors." At the same time, he said...

...Lincoln states, "Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty."73 Although he lists intelligence and patriotism ahead of Christianity and faith, both...

...precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. The Constitution is a complex organism, dividing power and checking and balancing the various...

...precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, the momentous issue...